Kids are starting braces younger, sometimes as early as age seven. Parents’ hope is that the more treatment given early—before all the adult teeth have come in—the less will be required later on, according to today’s WSJ. But early treatment may not save you any time or money, and offers no guarantees against a second round of pricey orthodontic treatment during the teenage years. Any of your kids have braces yet? Do you have any orthodontic horror stories of your own?

Would you go into business with your parents? Or your kids? An interesting look at parent-child entrepreneurs in the WSJ and how they manage to make such tricky relationships function. The story doesn’t focus on founders of established companies passing the reins to the next generation. Instead, it looks at parents starting new companies “with the person whose diapers they’ve changed. Or kids getting a start-up off the ground with the person who taught them how to drive.” Talk about a delicate balance between family and work…

A primer on child-care tax breaks geared toward working parents. Details on how child-care tax credits and flex-spending accounts work, from SmartMoney.

If parenthood is so difficult, why do most parents still love it? Because they are addicts, one author argues in Slate.